Industry Ticket Offer

Chicago Young Playwrights Festival - Pegasus Players is offering $5 tickets to previews and $10 tickets to all regular performances. Tickets may be purchased online or by telephone with the codeword "preview" for performances from January 7-10 and with code word"industry" for performances between January 15-31. Visit www.pegasusplayers.org or call (773) 878-9761, ext 17 to purchase tickets.

Industry Ticket Offer

Miracle on 34th Street - Porchlight Music Theatre at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 W. Belmont Ave., is offering $15 tickets to all industry/League members Saturday, January 2nd, at 2:30 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, January 3rd, at 2:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased by calling 773-327-5252 and use the code "ACTOR", with proof of industry status.

Happy Holidays!

We wish you all peace, cheer, and safe travels this holiday season, and we look forward to a Happy New Year with many great things to come in 2010!

Industry Ticket Offer

Sleeping Beauty - Moscow Festival Ballet at the McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd.,Glen Ellyn. is offering $36 industry tickets for the Sunday, Jan. 10, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. performances. Tickets are available with a copy of this notice. Subject to availability. For more information call (630) 942-4000.

Performance Rental Space Available

Rent a space at Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago (Bucktown); easily accessible by “L” or bus, ample street parking available. Basic marketing, box-office services (online and phone), and rehearsal space is included (FREE) for all weekday and weekend timeslots. GTT runs shows 7 days per week, multiple shows per day; greatest potential for profit and greatest protection from loss for any self-producing company or individual. Mainstage space has 80-seat capacity – for pictures and more information visit http://www.gorillatango.com and click on “Producers Wanted” page, or contact Bryan Cohen at 215-407-8753 or bryan@gorillatango.com.

Rehearsal and Performance Space Available

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts has rehearsal and performance space available immediately. Call Joe Ford at 312-733-6000.

WORDS

Well, I’ve asked before, but I’m going to do it again – is there a sentence that describes who we are and what we do – are there specific words you would use? How about these?

Where drama lives
World-class theatre with Midwestern soul
Storefront to internationally renowned
A community on fire
Sophisticated and loud

I don’t know if I like any of these, but I like all of the ideas here. What do you think?

Deb

Chicago Theater Intern Networking Event

Monday, February 1, 2010, 6 - 8 p.m.
Yondorf Hall at the Steppenwolf Admin Building, 758 W. North Ave. 2nd Fl.
FREE
Meet and network with interns at other Chicago theater companies. Take part in breakout groups by job discipline led by established and emerging leaders in the Chicago theater community. Don't miss this unique opportunity to make connections and learn from the experience of leaders in the theatre community.

RSVP to ben@chicagoplays.com before Friday, January 29 to attend.

Mission Paradox: Marketing and Technology Workshop

Saturday, January 9, 2010, 1 - 4 p.m.
Hyde Park Arts Center, 5020 S. Cornell

You've heard a lot about the impact technology has had on Marketing. You know the importance of a good email marketing campaign and a well designed website. You've tried out Twitter. Played around with LinkedIn. But, despite your best efforts, you are not getting the results you are looking for.
It's time to change that.In this workshop you will learn how to:- Select the tools that are right for the work you do.- Understand the limitations of those tools and set proper expectations for how much they can impact your work.- Combine those tools with traditional marketing tactics to create an effective, comprehensive, marketing strategy.
And much more!
For more details visit www.squidoo.com/paradoxworkshop
Cost: $75, $65 for League members.
The workshop is only for 15 participants and seats are going fast.

Announcing 2nd Round of NEA New Play Development Program

To advance the American nonprofit theater's ability to provide meaningful support for new work, the program will provide financial support for playwrights and institutions developing outstanding new American plays, advance the field's ability to support the development process for new work, and disseminate information on effective models for developing outstanding new American plays.

Download the application and guidelines at
http://www.arenastage.org/npdp >

Participate on the New Play Development Program Blog andsign up for email updates at http://npdp.arenastage.org >

TIMELINE:
December 18, 2009: Your Intent to Apply is due.
January 29, 2010: Your postmarked Application is due.

Industry Ticket Offers

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant – A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells St. is offering a pay what you can industry performance TONIGHT, December 14 at 8 p.m. For tickets call 312-943-8722.

The Pirates of Penzance - Light Opera Works at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson in Evanston, is offering half-price industry tickets on December 26 at 2 and 8 p.m., December 28 and 30 at 2 p.m. and January 2 at 8 p.m. For tickets call 847-869-6300 or visit www.LightOperaWorks.com and use code "Paradox." Tickets must be purchased in advance. No door sales.

UPDATE: Sketchbook Now Accepting Submissions

(UPDATE: Deadline extended to January 15, 2010.) Collaboraction is accepting all forms short plays, devised work submissions and director applications now through Jan. 15, 2010. For more information and to submit, visit collaboraction.org. SKETCHBOOK X is scheduled to run June 5 – 27 at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division Ave.

SKETCHBOOK is Collaboraction at its best: breaking down the walls that divide theater, music, visual art, video and the Internet. Selected from hundreds of submissions via the Internet, SKETCHBOOK once again brings together the collective talents of more than 200 pioneering directors, designers, actors, musicians and artists from Chicago and around the country for a jaw-dropping evening of creativity, experimentation and celebration.